Curator’s Lecture: “Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan”

Elephant-shaped Zun Vessel, Late Shang Period, 12th-11th Century BCE, Human Provincial Museum

Jay Xu, Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, to Discuss Ancient Chinese Bronzes.

Dr. Jay Xu is a co-curator of the exhibition “Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan,” currently on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. He will discuss ancient Chinese bronzes as the dominant medium for artistic expression during the Bronze Age (ca. 1500 BCE to 221 BCE) and interpret the regional characteristics of the exhibitedbronzes from Hunan. For more information on the exhibition, please visit the Museum’s website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/. Xu is also one of the authors of the exhibition catalog, available in the Museum’s bookshop.

Thursday, September 22, 2011
4.30 pm
Kresge Auditorium, VAC

Tickets are not required.